In retaliation for a chemical weapons attack in Douma, US President Donald Trump has said the US military launched strikes on Syrian chemical weapons capabilities. Russia has warned of “consequences” for the strikes. but did nothing to stop it.

The US, UK and France have launched precision airstrikes on military and chemical research sites in Syria in retaliation for the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians last week.

Both the Syrian government and its ally Russia have condemned the attack as a violation of international law.

The US has said that any future strikes would depend on whether or not further chemical attacks are carried out but that the country does not seek an “indefinite presence” in Syria.

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States, United Kingdom and France had launched precision strikes on Syrian military sites believed to be housing chemical weapons facilities following last week’s chemical weapons attack in Douma, which the US said was carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.

“The evil and the despicable attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children thrashing in pain and gasping for air,” Trump said of the attack. “These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Hawaii Congresswoman and Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard (D) called for a just resolution of the Armenian Genocide and pledged to promote the security and prosperity of Armenia and Artsakh in a video statement released to the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) earlier today. It is the first presidential campaign statement on […]

Governor of the U.S. Alabama State Kay Ivey has signed a declaration on recognizing the Armenian Genocide, ARMENPRESS reports the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) informs, thanking the Governor for the decision. The ANCA notes that by this move Alabama has become the 49th State to recognize the Armenian Genocide. US State Mississippi remain […]

Erdogan said the massacre in Christchurch was part of a broader attack on Turkey and Islam. He also warned anti-Muslim Australians that they would be sent back in coffins like their grandfathers at Gallipoli. New Zealand’s foreign minister will visit Turkey to “confront” Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan over his comments on an anti-Muslim massacre in […]

The Buenos Aires City Council has given the green light to the construction of an Armenian Genocide Museum in the city, reported Estacao Armenia. The city council voted 54 to 2 last week to approve the measures, which will enable the Armenian Genocide Memorial Foundation to build what it called a “Museum of Armenian Memory, […]

By Alex Young, This article first appeared on The Media Line BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hundreds of red lanterns glowed as they rose into the sky, watched by the crowds below until they disappeared behind the buildings that dot the fringes of the Lebanese coastline. The event is one of many building up to April 24th, […]

March 15, 1921, No Armenian have broad Justice to Armenian cause then Soghomon Tehlirian he was an Armenian revolutionary who assassinated Talaat Pasha, the former Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, in Berlin on March 15, 1921. Born: April 2, 1897, Erzurum, Turkey Died: May 23, 1960, San Francisco, CA In June 1915, during the […]

The people of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) have not authorized any country or international organization to determine their fate instead of them, says the country’s top parliament official. In an interview with Tert.am, President of the Nagorno-Karabakh National Assembly Ashot Ghulyan commented upon the latest development in the peace talks, highlighting the physical existence of their population as […]

Investigators piecing together the motivations of the suspected gunman behind New Zealand’s worst terrorist attack are poring over the 87-page hate-filled manifesto he published, and the memes, cultural references in his online rantings, and musical allusions contained in the video he took of the deadly incident. Then there is the multilingual lettering scrawled on his […]

“This is one of New Zealand’s darkest days,” PM Jacinda Ardern said. One man was in custody, and the shooting appeared to have been livestreamed on Facebook. By Phil Helsel, Ben Collins, Brandy Zadrozny, Jason Cumming and Linda Givetash. Nearly 50 worshippers were killed in mass shootings during Friday prayers at two mosques in New […]

Announcing its interim judgment, the court has ruled for the release of Muharram Demirkale and Ercan Gün. Former Governor of İstanbul Muammer Güler and 11 officials will testify in the next hearings. Hikmet Adal BIA News Desk – İstanbul The trial of the murder of journalist Hrant Dink has continued at the İstanbul 14th Heavy […]

The Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction, presided by judge Armen Bektashyan, resumed today hearings on extension of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan’s pre-trial arrest sought by the Special Investigative Service (SIS). A SIS investigator filed a motion to extend the ex-president’s arrest for another two months at Wednesday’s court hearing. Kocharyan’s attorneys are expected to […]

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who arrived in Armenia earlier on Wednesday on a two-day official visit, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan to pay homage to the Armenian Genocide victims. Accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan and Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutyan, the Georgian leader laid flowers at the Eternal Flame. The Georgian delegation next toured […]

The 8th Armenian-Bulgarian intergovernmental commission meeting on commercial and scientific-technical cooperation took place today in Yerevan. Minister of Transportation, Communication and Information Technologies Hakob Arshakyan, the president of the commission from the Armenian side, noted that recently the trade-economic cooperation development is proceeding at an unstable rhythm, despite the high level of relations between Armenia […]

By Wally Sarkeesian LOS ANGELES — A new book by Alice Nazarian, Bloodied, But Unbowed: A Memoir of the Ashur & Arshaluys Yousuf Family, has just been released by Nineveh Press. In this memoir, author Alice Nazarian tells the story of her parents and family in the shadow of the Armenian/Assyrian Genocide. Her father, Ashur Yousuf, […]

All the commentaries that, with his position that he cannot represent the people of Artsakh, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia is shrugging off his shoulders the accountability and placing it on the authorities or the people of Artsakh, are absurd. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday stated about the aforesaid at the […]

A little more than 100 years after the Ottoman Turks killed about 1.5 million of the empire’s Armenian citizens, Turkey’s president tweeted in Armenian. On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised Twitter users with a message in the language of Turkey’s small neighbor Armenia, with whom Ankara has had a tense relationship since World […]

Azerbaijan has launched large-scale military maneuvers ahead of an expected first meeting between President Ilham Aliyev and new Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said on March 11 that up to 10,000 troops, 500 tanks, 300 missile systems, aircraft, and other military equipment will take part in the five-day exercises. Armenia’s Foreign Ministry […]

Russia turns out to be Azerbaijan’s number one weapons supplier providing over half of the country’s armament, the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute (SIPRI) suggests. According to the 2018 Yearbook, the country received 51% of its weaponry from Azerbaijan, 43% – from Israel and 2.8% – from Turkey in the […]

Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, announced Thursday that the California Armenian Legislative Caucus is set to hold two scholarship contests for the 2019 commemoration of the Armenian Genocide where students could win $1,000. “This is a great opportunity for California high school students in 9th through 12th grade,” said Wilk. “I hope many students in […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressional Armenian Caucus founding Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ) was joined today by a dozen of his U.S. House colleagues in introducing the U.S.-Artsakh Travel and Communication Resolution, a bipartisan measure that aims to break down artificial barriers to unrestricted travel and open communication between the United States and Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), reported […]

On March 4 Liana Nikoghosyan reported seen ex-president brother Aleksandr Sargsyan aka Sashik vacationing in Spain. Now The National Security Service (NSS) admit has permitted Aleksandr Sargsyan, the brother of third President Serzh Sargsyan, to leave Armenia for some time. “The preliminary investigation body has given Aleksandr Sargsyan permission to be out of Armenia for […]

U.S. First Lady Melania Trump visits Gülen-linked charter school in Oklahoma. U.S. First Lady Melania Trump on Monday visited a charter school in Oklahoma affiliated with the Gülen movement as part of multi-state trip to promote her “Be Best” initiative, Tulsa World newspaper reported. The U.S. First Lady’s visit to The Dove School of Discovery in Tusla […]

March 5th marks the birthday of Sparapet (Commander-in-Chief), National Hero of Armenia and Artsakh Vazgen Sargsyan Today his friends-in-combat, public and political figures and average citizens are respecting his memory at Yerablour Military Pantheon. Among those attending the event were Armenia’s President Armen Sargsyan; His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians; Minister of Defense […]

GagruleLive: Today episode, News from Armenia, and the region Continue investigation into March 1 event. Kocharyan reporting from prison and Lets Build Havresc Project. Millionaires rolling the dice Again in Armenia 23-year-old got Prosecutor job because his father is Millionaire and much more… 00

(rferl.org) Few have ever questioned the generosity of Russian-Armenian businessman Ruben Vardanyan, who has given away hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable donations and social investments since emerging as a leading post-Soviet entrepreneur in the 1990s. But open-source journalists allege in a new investigative report that “employees” at the multibillion-dollar investment bank co-founded and […]

Azerbaijanis misrepresent Khojalu events ‘through Gencocide-era photos’ at Iranian exhibition The Iranian media have caught the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran read-handed at fabricating the facts behind the so-called Khojalu massacres. At an exhibition dedicated to the 27th anniversary of the tragic events, the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran showcased also a photo featuring an episode from […]

There are few principle provisions in Karabakh conflict regulation process, over which the authorities must have clear approaches before starting negotiations, Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan said in an interview to 168 Zham. “No matter with what explanations Pashinyan will try to cover the negotiations, they do take place. Not the pure fact of negotiations […]

YEREVAN—Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in a televised address to the nation, issued an apology to the victims of the March 1, 2008 post-election protests, during which eight civilians and two police officers were killed by security officials who were ordered to quell opposition revolt against the presidential election results. The case has gained new impetus […]

Many still hold memories of live recordings of Meschian and “Apostles” in the late 60′s and 70′s recorded on boom-boxes. They began as three architecture students at Yerevan Institute of Technology — the “Apostles” quickly rose to become the voice of a generation. Amalgamating Armenian gospel with rock rhythms, the band left an unforgettable impression […]

Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy explored the tourist areas of Kars province and made a statement in connection with the ruins of the city of Ani. According to the Turkish Hurriyet, the Minister visited Sarykamysh, built by the Russian Tsar, Sarykamysh Catherine Palace, Kars Fortress and the ruins of Ani. In Ani, the Turkish […]

The criminal proceeding involving second President Robert Kocharyan, who faces criminal charges for allegedly overthrowing Armenia’s constitutional order in the period of the March 1, 2008 post-electoral unrest, will continue in a closed-door format, the paper has learned. The relatives of the victims have been reportedly told that the courts are going to consider classified […]

The Guardian has published an article headlined ”Monumental loss: Azerbaijan and ‘the worst cultural genocide of the 21st century” about the demolishment of Armenian cross-stones in Azerbaijan. the periodical writes that the the greatest cultural disaster taking place at the moment might be taking place not in Syria, but in Caucasus, meaning the demolishment of […]

Yerevan: FACT 11 years ago on this day March 1st, 2008, Ex-President Levon Ter Petrosyan and MP Nikol Pashinyan launch a massive violent protest against the Government by Burning Cars and lotting shops consequently two policemen and eight civilians lost their life, Ex-President Robert Kocharyan one term Karabakh president and two Term President of Armenia […]

U.S. Rep. Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. issued a statement on the massacres of Sumgait, condemning the horrific attacks against the Armenian people committed by Azerbaijan 31 years ago, “I rise today to commemorate the Sumgait pogroms, one of the most horrific attacks against the Armenian people committed by the hands of Azerbaijanis 31 years ago […]

Azerbaijan Crime Against Humanity On the 31st anniversary of the tragedy, Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan accompanied by Primate of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan and top officials of the country visited the Stepanakert Memorial Complex and laid flowers at the monument of the innocent victims. Armenians are paying […]

The political factions and independent lawmakers represented in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) National Assembly have urged international human rights organizations to take a strong action to condemn the 1988 Armenian pogroms of Sumgait. In a joint statement, they also call upon the Azerbaijani authorities to confront their past and end the policy of xenophobia. “31 years […]